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From: Kate Gladstone <kate@global2000.net>
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Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1170] Re: Spanish speakers learning to read
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Ken Taber writes:
>>
>> Since you are already literate in English, you know that the word
>> "verb"
> usually refers to an action word, or something that can be conjugated
> according to persons and tenses.
I thought that "literacy" referred to "the ability to read and write,"
not "the knowledge of grammatical terms."
Many literates - people who can read and write the language(s) they
speak - have never so much as heard the word "verb" (or its equivalent
in the language(s) they know) ...
and surprising numbers of people can define "verb," "noun," and other
grammatical terms without knowing how to read these words or any other
words in their language(s). (Illiterates can & do sit through
junior-high-school English-class, memorize definitions, etc.)
>> There our bilingual programs
Excuse me, Ken, but I do not understand what "our" means in this
sentence.
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